About
Areej Quraishi is an author and teacher. Her writing explores familial relationships, cultural identity, memory, and their effects on the psyche. Her surrealist fiction is inspired by folklore and fairytale. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington-Seattle and an MA from Rutgers University. She is at work on a novel-in-stories featuring immigrant narratives and a novel and short story collection based on magic, myth, and psychological fantasy. Her stories appear in The Normal School, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Identity Theory, Cola Literary Review, jmww, Porter House Review and elsewhere. She was a finalist for Salamander Magazine’s 2021 Short Fiction Contest and the winner of the 2023 Wabash Prize for Fiction. She is a PhD candidate at UNLV, an alumna of the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Publishing Workshop, and the former Editor of Witness.
Events
Graduate Commencement, UNLV—Student Speaker, May 10th, 2024
Neon Lit Reading Series, May 9th, 2024
Publishing Careers 101, Black Mountain Institute, April 11th 2024
Preparing to Publish Creative Writing: November 7th 2023, UNLV Libraries
An Evening With Black Mountain Inst.’s PhD Fellows: May 10th 2023, The Beverly Theater
AWP Conference & Bookfair: UNLV MFA: Witness & Interim, Booth #943, March 9th-11th, Seattle Summit Building
Black Mountain Inst.’s Shearing Fellows in Conversation—Introduction: Anna Qu & Jaquira Diaz, March 4th 2023, The Beverly Theater
Neon Lit Reading Series: February 24th, 2023
Black Mountain Inst. Breakout Writer Series—Introduction: Joseph Han, Oct 12th 2022
An Evening With Black Mountain Inst.’s PhD Fellows: March 3th, 2022
Castalia Alumni Reading Series: January 12th, 2022
An Evening With Black Mountain Inst.’s PhD Fellows: February 22nd, 2021
UW Castalia Reading Series: Jan 2018 & March 2019, Hugo House
Black Jaw Literary Series: May 2018 & March 2019